Well after a lot of research, paper work, stress and waiting, we finally have our passports back and Kim is now a resident! Glad that I put in the many hours of research, we now have the ability to travel Europe which is, of course, one of the reasons we are over here. It was so hard to hear all our friends off and travelling every other weekend or planning a trip at the last minute. Now we can finally join in!
Did I mention hours of research?!? I discovered that if I apply for a residence card myself (which is completely unnecessary anyway), the time to return our passports was reduced from 6 months to just 2.5 months. And probably less if you actually know what you’re doing. We ended up having to send in more information and then hunting down the documents from Inland Revenue (one of which arrived the same day our passports were returned, a bit late for that! *sigh*). The other thing is the mountain of paper work I sent in. Small in comparison to some Visa applications we’ve heard about, but still enough to lose track of!
If anyone is in the same situation as us (me being an Irish Citizen and Kim being an Aussie), let me know as I’ll be able to give you many handy hints 
So, Europe, here we come!
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